The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-12
In the House.

nation. When the House went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr.. FELTON, rose and
yielded his time to Mr., Calvin, of Richmond,
who made a calm dspassioned argument IN
support of the bill, without the remotest
reference to the brewing storm. The audi
ence was restless under the suspense, and he
had small attention.
MR.. SIMMONS GETS THE FLOOR.
When he finished Mr.. Simmons caught
the eve of the Speaker and, walking down
the aisle toward the desk, began his reply
to Mr. FELTON, For an hour and n half he
berated the Creature from Barlow" as he
called him, reading now and then from
huge scrap books the doctors political
record, giving special prominence to Ben
Hills estimate of the man. His thrusts fire.
Quehtlv elected applause and shouts, and
more than once a bouquet tluttered to him
from the gallery which he stopped to pick
up and CALAMITY acknowledged. In reply
to Mr.. Felton's charge that he had
invaded the sanctity of his home, Mr. SIM
mons SAID: ~, was not my purpose to be
again heard concerning the matter under
discussion. The House was kind enough to
listen to me four or five days ago VIXEN |
did and uttered what l conceived to be the
truth and my duty on the occasion. | did
it, sir, in the exercise of the humble pre-
rogative that was accorded to me as
Representative of the county of Sumter.
RUITERATING HIS STATEMENTS.
II uttered then, and repeat now, what /
believe to be the truth. The circumstances
that occurred on yesterday i'll the hall of
this house-6uch circumstances as believe
the world never witnessed before. and may
God never permit to occur again. 1t is
these circumstances that bring me before
the House. AID | am here. | have Eeen
charged by the creature from Barlow lgreat
APPLAUSE have been charged with invad
ing the sancitity of his home and the roseate
hue of the fireside. l deny it, and the
creature from Barlow when he uttered it
offending a lady. Accused be the
man that would. Shame upon
me, shame upon my offspring,
if should so far forget the instincts of a
gentleman as to reflect upon lady. look
ing at the ladies in the galleries. The
charge was q surprise to me. The charge
is q surprise to all who carefully listened to
and heard all that had to say few days
ago. Mr.. Chairman, if | had dreamed that
had tTespassed upon those delicate rela-
tions, if had had the slightest notice that
my Language could have been wilfully,
knowingly, falsely perverted, and that so
much was in the mind of the creature
from Barlow, if had been given the slight
est notice Of it, no man would have been
reader 10 retract and disabuse his mind of
the impression.
ADMIRATION FOR MRS. FELTON,.
"Mr. Chairman, it would have been q
great privilege to me if had dreamed that
the distinguished lady had felt that had
reflected upon her TO have gone to her and
made the proper amends, yet the creature
from Barlow, wearing the ermne and the
livery Of heaven and a gospel min
lister, does not give me the slightest
notice. But it would have been
admirable in me to have told that distin-
guiShcd lady that have admired her intel
lect as the luminary of heaven; have ad-
mired her wit, as keen as a Damascus
blade; | have admired her genius that
genius that is like the resplendence of the
lightning and the stars; have admired her
patience, admired her zeal She took an
old preacher from Barlow forty years ago,
and with all her distinguished skill, all her
intellect, for forty years loved the old
thing, and would have admired
her more if she had left him in
the squalid mire where she. found him
[Applause.l She had a hard task, Mr. Chair
man, but God will reward her and the angels
will smile at her coming. May heaven bless
her [Great applause.l
THE REVERENCE TO THE SON.
'The preacher from Barlow, not content
with bringing his elegant and accomplished
wife into this dirty diSgraceflil controversy
goes and wrestles with youth. He takes his
son and sets his handsome face up before this
vast assembly and charges me wilfully,
knowingly, absolutely, falsely with defam-
ing that elegant young man. Now what did
j say on the subject / said that when
John Howard of old had mastered the prison
business, the penitentiaries of England, one
at Middlesex and another at another place.
then the old man concluded that he would
master quarantine He had an only son.
Here the parallel does not apply. Here the
analogy does not suit. That young man to-
day is at the University of Georgia, my
nj old oil
son of John Howard would liken, for the
sake of the argument, to virtuous person
on Venetian ship. The creature from
Barlow, turning his back upon
virtue was looking to vice, looking to those
who had committed crime, when virtue
was to be protected and wrong TO be
attacked at the expense of vice, as if he
then proposed to follow John Howard.
HIS HONESTY MPUGNED.
1--WE will deprecate his departure pour out
our hearts in sorrow. But the treasury of
Georgia would rejoice. Now that is what
SAID about the son. No reflection there
But the preacher of Barlow utters prayer
am glad he had time to quit his creature
gas. am glad that once in while he was
reminded of the fact that he is
o solid minister of the gospel. am glad
that once in a while he is reminded of prayer.
He prayed for that elegant young man
Oh, that wretched hypocrtel Oh that
vile slanderer That traducer of private
character. [Applause.l Lifted his unboly
voice TO Heaven! The angels yelled their
faces and the cherubim wept Now he has
put me out Of the pale of prayer, but II
were permitted Ia pray, | would pray TINT
when that elegant young man goes
on in his purposes and his du-
ties, and the elimination of his
manhood, when he starts out upon the world.
that all mankind should rise up and say
there was not a solitary resemblance to the
creature from Barlow Who is il that he
has not denouncedl He has denounced the
lawyers Of his county. He has denounced
the county officials OF his county.
cLAssED WITH THE sQUAws.
Now when ''she" lived 1000 years and
rushed recklessly into the fire, she went into
one too many, and il burned the old sis.
The old creature had entered the last fire,
and when he cuts away tho living limits of
his own home folks, down goes
the creature from Barlow, "she" Has he
ever alluded 10 anyone's misfoitunel Has
be ever alluded TO anyone's decrepitude!
Let's see: When the Hon. George N. Lester,
the one-armed Confederate soldier, was in
Congress, see the old creature as he,
with crumpled arm, Knocked the Hon.
George n. Lester Here is Gen Gordon.